The critics tell me to stop. Family and friends tell me to stop. Even my own better judgement and sense of reason tells me to stop. But addiction can’t be reasoned with. I’m chasing the high I’ve been chasing since I was a teenager. It started with The Usual Suspects, that pure uncut feeling of being taken in. My memory […]
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Glass (2019)
What happens when a criminal mastermind, an indestructible hero and a man with 24 distinct personalities are captured and locked in a facility together? What happens when the director who gave us ‘The Sixth Sense’ is on the verge of his own cinematic universe? The answer to both is very little. Glassis largely a talkfest of ‘on […]
Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)
With Velvet Buzzsaw, Dan Gilroy succeeds in simultaneously subverting melodrama and slasher film as devious and deluded characters are slowly consumed by the art around which their world revolves. While installations, paintings and ghastly portraits pervade both scene and story, Gilroy’s double helix of character arcs, drawn from a clique for whom Art is a […]
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